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CNC Milling Tips & Tricks: 7 Articles For You to Mill Through

Dive into popular milling articles from Modern Machine Shop, Moldmaking Technology, and Production Machining to discover tips, tricks, and innovations that will make your chips fly—and your competition sweat.

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PMTS 6 Mar 2025

iSwiss Collet Protects Sensitive Parts During Machining

PMTS 2025: The Gold Wave Collet product line is designed to prevent scratching and help preserve the finish of sensitive parts.

PMTS 6 Mar 2025

Kennametal Swiss Tools Specialized for Small, Complex Components

PMTS 2025: The TopSwiss MBS Medical Line inserts feature a specialized coating and sharp cutting edges for optimized surface finishes and reduced tool pressure.

Cutting Tools 4 Mar 2025

Ceratizit Milling Cutters Provide Pinpoint Micromachining Accuracy

PMTS 2025: AluLine – Micro milling cutters is designed for applications with small workpieces that require high-tolerance machining.

PMTS 28 Feb 2025

Swiss Steel Group Turning Tool Improves Process Reliability

PMTS 2025: Ugima-X is said to provide optimized cycle times, longer tool service life and improved chip breaking.

Workholding 24 Feb 2025

Mate Custom Hard Jaws Accommodate Holding of Complex Geometries

PMTS 2025: Mate’s machinable hard jaws are well suited for holding complex part geometry during finishing operations.

PMTS 21 Feb 2025

Engis Milling Tool Enables High Stock Removal Rates

PMTS 2025: The Engis ElectroMill is designed to produce high-quality, ﬂat milled surfaces, even if an interrupted cut is present or multiple materials need to be machined simultaneously.

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Automation Breakthroughs Revolutionize Precision Machining for Complex Parts

Marubeni Citizen-Cincom delivers custom solutions to address some of the biggest challenges in precision machining from handling small parts, to robot integration and unique tooling needs.

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Toolholders 13 Jun 2024

Machining’s Impact on Sustainability

Individual elements of the machining process such as machine tools, tooling and even CAD/CAM software play a role in overall machine shop sustainability. Observing the entire process especially when it comes to their influences on energy usage is key.

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Toolholders 25 Jan 2022

Fast Change Tooling System Increases Spindle Uptime

This coolant-through tooling system replacement for the gang plate on a Swiss-type machine can save hours of spindle downtime per day as well as increase tool life and enhance chip control.

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Toolholders 16 Nov 2021

Video Tech Brief: Shrink-Fit Collets Explained

For live-tool lathes, shrink-fit collets can speed setups while offering higher tool clamping forces.

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Toolholders 21 Oct 2021

Video: The Value of Shrink-Fit Collets for Live-Tool Lathes

Offering reduced setup times, high runout accuracy and high clamping forces, shrink-fit technology for ER collets is now available for live-tool lathes.

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Cutting Tools 24 Jan 2025

Heule Cutting Tool Provides Chatter-Free Countersinks

GH-K tooling is well suited for conventional milling of chamfers around the perimeter of larger holes or entire parts.

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Cutting Tools 26 Apr 2024

Monaghan Drills Optimize Chip Evacuation

MK Tools Rambo Speed Drills are well suited for high-speed applications where efficiency is key, including connecting rods, injection pumps, wheel carriers, guide wheel shafts and more.

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Tool Path Improves Chip Management for Swiss-Type Lathes

This simple change to a Swiss-type turning machine’s tool path can dramatically improve its ability to manage chips.

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Cutting Tools 12 Feb 2024

Addressing Micro-Boring Challenges

This boring bar/tool holding system for Swiss-type lathes is said to offer high rigidity and positioning repeatability. In addition, the boring bars can be changed out using no hand tools.

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Medical 28 Nov 2023

New Cutting Tool Technology Discovered at Paul Horn Open House

During a tour of the company’s campus in Tubingen, Germany, I and more than 3,000+ others were introduced to a number of new advances the company has made in cutting tool technology particularly as it relates to the medical industry.

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Cutting Tools 18 Apr 2023

IMCO Carbide Tool Inc. End Mills for Faster Part Cycles

The M936 Pow-R-Feed series is designed to make various toolpath moves without slowing down, providing faster cycle times and more production.

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Workholding 8 Jan 2024

Bar Feeder Designed with Swiss-Types in Mind

New technology enables this bar feeder to fully support the bar pusher and stock from inside the unit all the way to the spindle of a sliding headstock lathe.

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Workholding 1 Sep 2023

Video Tech Brief: Bar Feeder Technology Optimized for Swiss-Types

This bar feeder design is said to offer high guidance quality with minimum vibration and noise development for sliding-headstock machines.

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Workholding 8 May 2023

Dillon's Extruded Aluminum Pie Jaws Maximize Contact Area

Eastec 2023: The company’s full-grip pie jaws are machined from aluminum barstock, meaning they have none of the porosity inherent with castings.

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Workholding 9 Feb 2023

Dillon's Full-Grip Chuck Jaws Reduce Part Distortion

Dillon full-grip jaws are ideal for high-speed machining, as well as precision boring, tapping, drilling and finishing across most industrial markets.

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Workholding 13 Oct 2022

VIDEO: Swiss Shop’s Choice of Collets Facilitates Backworking

This Swiss shop discovered workholding collets that satisfy the needs of its very small, delicate and complex medical parts production on the subspindle, making once impossible processes not only doable but more efficient and esthetically pleasing.

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Workholding 29 Nov 2021

Versatile Soft Jaw Introduces One-Size-Fits-All Technology

This soft jaw technology conforms to any part geometry and does not require removal from the machine tool when switching to a new job. It also saves shops setup and machining time, energy, and cost involved in the design and development of creating a custom soft jaw.

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